Branko Milanović: Can the West Abandon Globalization?

In a pandemic the pharmaceutical industry is hailed as a saviour; yet the industry is using the crisis to lock in its problematic, profit-maximising model. Pushing for public money with no-strings-attached, and stronger monopoly patent […]

Neoliberalism and the revolt against austerity have pushed powerful states to impose social and economic pain on each other, or on smaller states. Read here P

Is this the future of democracy in the EU? The Spanish government calls for new elections in Catalonia. The pro-independence parties win. One leader is kept in prison, the other outside of Catalonia. This is […]